What's the Purpose of Journals?

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:28.5	So, I got this email, and I was a quickie, quickie at Dr. Laura.com, and I thought, you know,
0:37.3	I'm going to open the show with this because I don't think I've ever talked about this.
0:42.4	So here's her letter. What is the purpose of journals? Who are they for? And what do you do with them? I have been writing for years.
0:55.1	There are happy entries as well as not so happy entries.
0:59.4	I'm thinking of going back through them one more time and then trashing them.
1:06.4	Thanks, L.J.
1:10.1	I don't think it's Lyndon Johnson, so...
1:12.6	No, it's probably somebody else.
1:17.1	Well, therapists like to tell people
1:20.1	to start writing journals
1:24.1	for a reason.
1:32.1	Self-awareness. If You're sitting there contemplating what you're thinking, feeling, doing, and you're writing it down so your eyeballs can actually see.
1:38.6	It's sort of the notion of, do you hear yourself? This is, do you see yourself?
1:49.4	It provides people with an opportunity to process emotions.
1:56.4	And if you keep journals forever, you can go back and go, wow, I've grown a lot.
2:03.2	I used to whine and complain and worry about X, Y, and Z, and I don't anymore.
2:08.6	I found a way to deal with it, and you can impress yourself.
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